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CFMEU administrator Mark Irving KC resigns
Mark Irving KC was announced as CFMEU administrator in 2024. (AAP Image: Darren England)
Mark Irving KC — who was appointed administrator of the CFMEU in 2024 amid revelations of widespread corruption, criminality and violence — has tendered his resignation.
He commissioned multiple investigations into the union, removed hundreds from their positions and has received death threats.
The ongoing commission of inquiry into the CFMEU in Queensland resumes this week.
The senior barrister appointed to clean up Australia's scandal-plagued construction union has resigned, after leading it through what the administration has called "the most challenging period in the union's recent history".
Mark Irving KC was appointed as administrator of the CFMEU in August 2024 amid revelations of widespread corruption, criminality and violence within the institution.
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The senior barrister appointed to clean up the corruption and crime-tainted CFMEU, Mark Irving, has quit in a major challenge to the Albanese government’s attempts to reform the sector.
His departure comes two months after he launched an internal investigation into the treatment of two women by his former second-in-charge, national secretary Zach Smith, whose own sudden resignation from the CFMEU in January came amid serious disclosures from the two women.
Irving’s resignation as administrator is the most serious challenge to face Labor’s reform plan for the scandal-ridden union while fending off opposition calls for the CFMEU’s deregistration or a royal commission, including into the union’s abuse of its power on taxpayer-funded building sites across the nation.
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Official in charge of CFMEU clean-up quits in shock move
The head of the CFMEU administration has quit more than 12 months early in another major setback to the Albanese government’s efforts to clean up corruption and organised crime in the construction industry.
Barrister Mark Irving, KC, has stepped back from his role as national administrator of the CFMEU about 18 months into his three-year term and he will formally quit in June, ahead of a critical rebuilding stage.
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